I expect this to be a fairly low-volume sub but absolutely would love it if people were to contribute things concerning academia - from primary to post-doc, no academic subject is out of bounds.

Be civil.

Be on-topic.

No drama.

You're free to rant and rave on other subs. This one is for very specific content and the specificity will be maintained for all submissions. There's some leeway for comments, but remain civil. Keep your drama to the other subs.

Yup. This is brilliant. The missing puzzle piece. The University that I attended was undergoing this dramatic expansion during my tenure there, an unhappy process that included decreasing diversity, increasing coursework difficulty & etc. in order to bolster the University's reputation and market position.

This seems like it comfortably establishes the motive for the expansion of the University system, and the degree inflation process. It's about money. Perhaps University's are meant simply to indoctrinate young liberals, creating a hegemony based upon Professors as political enforcers, and create a slush fund of the sort described. How shocking. It was never about training us for the workforce, or expanding scholarship. It seemed fishy at the time, but is starting to make sense.

'Nevertheless, targeting hedge funds remains a promising tactic for uniting students and workers against hedge funds’ efforts to increase inequality, and using our tuition dollars and public subsidies to do so. '

'A report by Preqin, an organization that provides research to investors, states that the school’s investment in hedge funds is around $500 million. '